On Wednesday 24 August 2011, Jim Jagielski wrote: > On Aug 24, 2011, at 12:05 PM, Plüm, Rüdiger, VF-Group wrote: > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: Jim Jagielski [mailto:j...@jagunet.com] > >> Sent: Mittwoch, 24. August 2011 18:02 > >> To: dev@httpd.apache.org > >> Subject: Re: DoS with mod_deflate & range requests > >> > >> Sorting isn't allowed but I get the impression that merging is > >> OK... Roy can confirm... > > > > But merging might require sorting... > > then we don't do that merge, imo… In other words, we > progress thru the set of ranges and once a range > is merged as far as it can be (due to the next range > not being merge-able with the previous one), we let > it go...
We could also use a two stage approach: Up to some limit (e.g. 50) ranges, we return them as the client requested them. Over that limit, we violate the RFC-SHOULD and sort and merge them.
